re·ces·sive
ri-ˈse-siv
1
a
: tending to recede
2
a
: producing little or no phenotypic effect when occurring in heterozygous condition with a contrasting allele
recessive genes
b
: expressed only when the determining gene is in the homozygous condition
recessive traits
a recessive disease
recessively
adverb
recessiveness
noun
1
: an organism possessing one or more recessive characters
2
: a recessive character or gene
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